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Footage has emerged of the attack on Turkey’s intelligence building in Ankara during the botched coup on Friday night.

It shows F16s, flown by putschists, firing on the area as cars below try to dodge the strikes.

Police and pro-government civilians are then seen firing their pistols up at the sky in an attempt to bring the jets down.

The military revolt, which saw warplanes firing on key government installations and tanks rolling into major cities, took the Turkish government by surprise.

Within hours it was quashed by loyal government forces and masses of civilians who took to the streets.

On Monday, warplanes patrolled Turkey's skies overnight in a sign that authorities feared that the threat against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government was not yet over, despite official assurances that life has returned to normal after a failed coup.

The state-run Anadolu news agency said Mr Erdogan ordered the overnight patrol by F-16s "for the control of the airspace and security" after a faction within the military launched the attempted coup late Friday.

It emerged yesterday that at the height of the attempt to topple the president, the rebel pilots of two F-16 fighter jets had Mr Erdogan's plane in their sights.

The Turkish leader was returning to Istanbul from a holiday near the coastal resort of Marmaris when at least two F-16s harassed Mr Erdogan's plane while it was in the air and en route to Istanbul.

"Why they didn't fire is a mystery," one former military officer with knowledge of the event said.

Mr Erdogan said as the coup unfolded that the plotters had tried to attack him and had bombed places he had been at shortly after he left. He "evaded death by minutes".

Around 25 soldiers in helicopters descended on his hotel in Marmaris on ropes, shooting, just after Mr Erdogan had left in an apparent attempt to seize him.